- The scheduler's assumed...

- A terminating pod on a node that is not caused by preemption no longer prevents `kube-scheduler` from preempting pods on that node

- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  
  - `rest_client_transport_cache_entries` is a gauge metric
  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing

 - The intree volume plugin flocker support was completely removed from Kubernetes. ([#111618](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111618), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

- Respect grace period...

## Changelog since v1.23.16

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 

## Changelog since v1.24.10

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 

  - A `create` or `update` API request with duplicate items in a keyed list no longer wipes out managedFields. Examples include env var entries with the same name, or port entries with the same containerPort in a pod spec.
  - A server-side apply request that makes unrelated changes to an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list no longer fails, and leaves the existing duplicate items as-is.

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message...